Question

What is the easiest and most SQL-like way to insert textbox values into a SQL Server table? I found several ways, and all of them are too complicated for this simple thing I want to do.

Answer 1

If LINQ is too foreign for you, you can still do things the old-fashioned way:

string statement = "INSERT INTO mytable(mycolumn) VALUES (@text)";
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(statement);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@text", myTextBox.Text);

try{
    SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(myConnectionString);
    connection.Open();
    command.Connection = connection;
    command.ExecuteNonQuery();
} catch {
    //do exception handling stuff
}

Edit: Here’s another version that uses using to ensure that messes are cleaned up:

string statement = "INSERT INTO mytable(mycolumn) VALUES (@text)";

using(SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(statement))
using(SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(myConnectionString)) {
    try{
        command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@text", myTextBox.Text);
        connection.Open();
        command.Connection = connection;
        command.ExecuteNonQuery();
    } catch {
        //do exception handling stuff
   }
}